CHEERS TO THREE YEARS!

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Thu, 02/28/2008 - 12:48 — John Drake

It's hard to believe that it has already been three years since we began delivering our hottest deals directly to our Customer's desktops through DING! While it may be DING!'s anniversary, our Customers will be the ones receiving the gifts (no hard feelings, DING!). We're kicking off the celebration by offering three days of great DING! fares, plus the chance to win some awesome prizes by submitting your own DING! headline.

With so many fantastic offers the past few years, our DING! headline writers are exhausted and we're giving them a break! If you have a DING! headline you think will get a laugh out of us, enter the contest by clicking on the link within DING! or visit http://www.southwest.com/contest/ding_headlines/landing.html to install DING! and send the headline our way. You just might win a Royal Caribbean Cruise, roundtrip tickets on Southwest Airlines, or a $500 southwestgiftcard.^tmHappy Anniversary, DING! Here's to many more!

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We long " DING" because it offers us the the best fares to travel within the USA. Our whole company will only travel with South West Airlines and we continue to spread the word to everyone on how great it is to download *DING* !.

Diane Hartnett — Thu, 02/28/2008 - 19:20

Happy birthday to ding!

Duplicate comment detected, it looks as though you've already said that!

ding!
boy
joe!

Joe Friedmann — Thu, 02/28/2008 - 23:26

Happy Third Birthday to a great group of DINGers!
Keep those bells ringing,
Kim
External Blog Boy :)

Kim Seale — Fri, 02/29/2008 - 00:23

Happy Birthday, DING! Let's have a party! :)

Thought for the day: What do A.M. & P.M. stand for?

SWA LUV! :)

Leah — Fri, 02/29/2008 - 01:14

Leah,
Those are the two broadcast bands on your car radio. The A.M. usually has numbers from about 550 to 1600 on it and features scratchy music and programs where people argue back and forth on the telephone about sports and politics. The 88 to 108 numbers are F.M., which has music coming out of all of those speakers around you. You may think I'm teasing you, but I'm really quite sirius.
Kim
External Blog Boy and Listener of FM :)

Kim Seale — Fri, 02/29/2008 - 02:15

Kim,
Shouldn't your tag read "External Blog Boy and Listener of XM :-)?"

Shirley you can't be sirius?
Ding!
boy
joe!

Joe Friedmann — Fri, 02/29/2008 - 03:57

Congratulations on 3 years of DING! Great way to find last-minute low fares. There is some room for improvement though. How about offering DING as text messages? Send a list or at least an indication that new DING fares are being posted so we can get to a computer as soon as the fares are released. A DING! version for the Iphone would be useful too, since the Iphone can display regular websites.

Please pass this on to your IT department. This can increase revenue to Southwest! DING! should exist on portable platforms since not everyone is at a computer all the time.

Kumar — Fri, 02/29/2008 - 04:44

Ah, I see. Well, if I listen to the radio, I have it on FM. I never listen to AM but have had it on long enough to notice it's scratchy.

Okay, the birthday party is ready! :) It'll be fun!

I don't have another thought for the day. Maybe next time I will. It's bed time anyway. Zzzzzzzzz.

SWA LUV! :)

Leah — Fri, 02/29/2008 - 05:15

Kim's back! I haven't seen the EBB sig in ages. Granted, I haven't been around much either, but it's good to see you again. And I love your description of AM radio!

Poor Leah, Kim didn't read your post very well. If he had, he would have said something like, "AM is when you wake up and it's dark, PM is when it's dark and you go to sleep."

AM = Amplitude Modulation
FM = Frequency Modulation

But back to Leah's query:
AM = Ante Meridiem
PM = Post Meridiem
Ante is Latin for before, Post is Latin for After, and Meridiem is Latin for midday.

And today is February 29, that once-every-four-year event that keeps the sun in the right spot in the sky. Here's a factoid for you Leah - In 1712, Sweden had to add TWO extra days at the end of February for leap year. So not only did they have February 29, but they also had a February 30!

Jim — Fri, 02/29/2008 - 13:47

Hey Jim, nice to see you back as well.

Joe Friedmann — Fri, 02/29/2008 - 14:18

Joe,
Actually, I AM sirius. And don't call me Shirley...
Kim
EBB listening to FM in the AM :)

Kim Seale — Fri, 02/29/2008 - 17:56

DING! has turned three
Southwest doth LUV thee
Check for its offers early and often
You can fly from sea to shining sea!

Drew — Fri, 02/29/2008 - 19:25

Yes, Jim! I noticed that, too! Well, thanks for the reply. It's much appreciated! :)

Observation for the day: Chocolate has the word "ate" in it!

SWA LUV! :)

Leah — Sat, 03/01/2008 - 00:53

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...

http://www.gadling.com/2007/05/11/bing-ding-ryanairs-obvious-southwest-r...

Ann — Sat, 03/01/2008 - 04:49

DING is the best!
Happy Birthday DING!

Oliver — Sun, 03/02/2008 - 07:03

HERE'S THE THING DING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IS THE WINNING TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheryl — Mon, 03/03/2008 - 15:05

...and diet has the word die in it. Which is why I avoid that and eat chocolate instead!

LisaC — Tue, 03/04/2008 - 15:51

I have become a FORMER customer and supporter until Southwest owns up to its shortcomings and fixes the problems. J

John Lovell — Thu, 03/13/2008 - 02:49

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B. Bowen — Mon, 03/17/2008 - 23:15

Hello. Does anyone know thw winning headlines for the DING contest? Thanks.

Dee — Tue, 03/25/2008 - 15:18

Hi John,
When are we going to find out the winning entries!? I'm doing to know!

Eden in California

Eden — Wed, 03/26/2008 - 19:53

Hello everyone.
Wow! We're grateful for all of the DING! headlines weÃ

John Drake — Wed, 03/26/2008 - 20:49

Hello everyone.
It was certainly a tough call with so many great headlines that we received, but our winners have been notified. As soon as we finalize everything with the winners we will be posting their names within DING!. Thanks again!

John Drake — Fri, 04/11/2008 - 20:59

How badly do I want to add Ding to my blog? Any plans to go from desktop to web application? Please???

Kris — Thu, 08/28/2008 - 19:52

I noticed that DING! fares have changed in the past few weeks to being an endless list of exclusions on which flights they apply to. It's so complicated to figure all of them out that I'm giving up on DING! now. It was so great back when it was a simple listing from my home city, check the dates if they worked and booked it. Nothing simpler than that. I don't have time to sift through all the junk about the fare only applying to this flight or that one. Sad really. Oh well hopefully Southwest will go back to the simpler approach to DING!

Chase — Thu, 09/04/2008 - 16:29

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